Word: ghraib
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...After Abu Ghraib and the insurgents' attacks, which have resulted in the deaths of Iraqi civilians, many people around the globe are asking when Washington will realize that invading Iraq has not solved that country's problems. Public sentiment has turned against the U.S. because of Iraq. America represents many beliefs that the world values in the 21st century, but the insensitive and arrogant behavior of the Bush Administration is tarnishing the image of the U.S. Americans should expect better from their government. Atilla A. Iftikhar Stavanger, Norway...
...would like to congratulate Philippine-American Major General Antonio Taguba for his report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. For Taguba to issue the well-documented exposé of the abuses and torture-which implicated both the American military and its political leadership-took the kind of courage required for service on a war's front lines. This is democracy in action. Politicians may be divided on the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war, but Taguba deserves unanimous praise. For him, it was an act of conscience. Joel R. Hinlo Brigadier General...
...years of policy governing the treatment of detainees captured during conflict, the memos meticulously list all the laws against torture--then offer methods of evading them. The White House insists that these documents were abstract musings rather than actual policy changes. Nevertheless, they suggest that what happened at Abu Ghraib was not unique but grew out of a climate of ambiguity regarding the treatment and interrogation of prisoners that was created by an Administration determined to do whatever it takes to win the war on terrorism...
...terrorists. A senior Pentagon official says the rules for interrogation in Iraq were "more aggressive than the ones at Guantanamo." Stress positions, sleep deprivation, the use of dogs to intimidate detainees--all violations of Geneva--were allowed in Iraq, though they had not been used at Guantanamo. At Abu Ghraib, detainees wore plastic bracelets printed with their ID number and the word terrorist, the Wall Street Journal reported...
Despite White House attempts to disavow responsibility for the practices employed at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, the existence of the memos has further eroded U.S. credibility. A Pentagon official tells TIME that Rumsfeld is arguing privately to declassify the interrogation techniques because, coming out piecemeal, they are doing a lot of political damage. Some high-ranking military officials, however, say that al-Qaeda already trains its recruits on techniques in the Army field manual, and that if the other ones are made public, the terrorists could use that to their advantage. Things could get even worse. A Republican Senator says...